This is a response to @tobias-g on Quello.io.
Please replay, if you think it's worth it. I have almost no followers.
I do not see the situation of separation in a negative light at all. The user numbers were already declining before and have now only received a boost.
This is partly due to the complicated painting process and the fact that people with starting power can't act as much as they want. ( This will also be my last mail for at least 5 days and will I still be that enthusiastic in 5 days????)
On the other hand it is due to the constant navel-gazing and the catfights (downvotewars, communities)
But above all, it was and is because there is no idea of a future that more or less unites everyone.
Well, that's the way it is, and you can't change it or turn it back.
But that's history, what about future?
I have a question about that. Is anybody in the world interested in which operating system his somewhere hosted blog runs on? I don't mean. Interesting are the costs and the reliability. Most people don't care if this is done by knitting Chinese or alien reptoids.
Whether the Blockchain is called #steem #hive #golos or #weku I don't care, most people don't care.
What I do care about is that the witnesses of the mentioned chains work against each other instead of with each other. Past is past, it depends on successfully shaping the future. But they behave like infants who feel they are being treated unfairly.
The same problem has been seen in the past with the wars between the different Linux distributions. Instead of pulling together and offering the user an added value, they have shut themselves off. The result is a renewed marginalization. The small chance they had (before Windows10), this chance they missed due to childish behaviour. Bill and Steve say thanks for that.
What should the next steps be?
All app developers should remember that they make less money if they lock out users because they prefer the wrong block chain. Rather, they should make all users a permanent offer to publish/comment their posts on several or all blockchains.
- easier you will never get new users
- it is by far the best way to bind users to your UI and to wean the user off other frontends.
- it is the best answer to this separation crisis, because with it the developers show that they are interested in the users and not only in their own ego.
It may be that the blockchain is the future, but it is certain that only applications for it are the cashcows.
For the last few weeks, I never knew what was stable and what was not. #steemauto #steemworld #steempeak #appics #younameit, always I had to find out, that this one is switched off or that one does not work anymore. In the same time the effort to post something increased, double keys, double time to comment, wasted time to read twice.
You have to be autistic not to be annoyed about this.
It may be that the witnesses are too ignorant to see that. But as a developer of dapps/frontends, you should be aware of this huge possibility
...and to give everything for it.
I don't know of a single successful app that runs exclusively on one operating system, do you?
